This photograph taken on August 18, 2017 shows members of the Musahar community eating roasted rat at Alampur Gonpura village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. -AFP
ALAMPUR GONPURA: The rat kept crawling over Phekan Manjhi’s arm as he battled to pin it to the ground before he eventually managed to kill it with repeated blows to the head.
The execution drew applause from neighbours huddled around the 60-year-old in a grimy courtyard outside his mud and straw hut. Another meal lined up for the Rat Eaters -- some of India’s poorest people.
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